Fresh Holiday Greetings by Meant for a Moment Designs

I have been working diligently on this years Holiday Collection and 

I am happy to have some Fresh Holiday Greetings to share. They have 

all been posted at Meant for a Moment's Etsy Shop and are available 

for purchase for the upcoming season! 

{Along with other Special Greetings like my new favorite:}

Nike, Just Does it

Nike does Just Do It Right don't they? Isn't that amazing wood 

typography up there? 

There is just something about typography that 

I adore and when it sis done right and used creatively I kind of drool 

over it. {It might have been those hours spent forced to identify each 

font's individual curl in college} But what ever the cause, BRAVO 

designers on board at Nike. I dig. 

Just wishing you a...

Color Picking Pen...

The Color Picking Pen by Jinsun Park is an amazing design 

and idea for a brilliant pen that would be amazing to own. 

Too bad this is only a concept pen.  But how unreal 

would this pen be if they produced it? Can you imagine? 

So what it does is, it takes scans colors from anything 

around you for you to instantly use in your drawing. There is 

an RGB cartridge inside the pen that mixes the color for you

 once it has been scanned. I can not wait until they develop 

more for this pen. This would be great for a marker artist.  

Something Special

Inspired by Cup of Joe's Friday Post

A beautiful quote.

Little Goodall Animal Coats

I don't really need to say anything here do I?

These hand sewn coats by Little Goodall are just so adorable.

An Important Message for Thursday

photo via Braedon Photography

Custom Stamped Cookies

SO I have a wicked plan that has just developed this morning. 

See those beautiful cookies up there? Well they were created using 

stamps... What if I created a custom stamp {like the one I created 

for Mike and Sal's wedding, above} and created custom cookies 

for our wedding using my custom designed stamp? Cute or no?

What do you think? Too much work or totally worth it?

Holiday Greetings

Just a taste of the New Holiday Designs from:

...more to come, stay tuned!

Wheatfield Posters... makes my heart skip a beat

Oh my gosh I am FORCING myself to practice willpower and 

not to buy up all of these large format prints right now....  Aren't 

they AMAZING? And wouldn't they add the most joyful amount 

of color to your house that you could muster in one bundle?! Oh 

my gosh I adore them so much. And they say such nice things. I 

feel so inspired to create hand painted text right now. I am really 

looking forward to creating some funky wedding invitations 

with all of these inspirations!

And look at this one! {Wheatfield you have my heart for life}

The Summit of Awesome

Today I will be attending the Summit of Awesome. 

It has finally come to Baltimore and I am so excited, 

and even a little nervous to be honest. I can't wait to 

report back the happenings of awesome that occurred!

UPDATE: 

The Summit of Awesome was more Awesome that 

expected, I met some really great and talented people 

and learned a tremendous amount. 

Things about Copyright and Trademark {I soaked that in 

like it was the sun and I wanted a BURN!} it was good 

information from an intellectual property lawyer. 

And Social Media. I think I will ReEnter the world of 

Twitter thanks to Willowtoons and Lish and their great 

talk on social media. 

I heard from Biggs & Featherbelle and Figs &

Ginger about wholesaling (wow have 

they grown and they are getting bigger and bigger)

And Danielle from Etsy, if you 'Etsy' I am sure you've seen

 Danielle, well she was there and gave us all some great 

information on how to utilize Etsy to its fullest potential to 

have the greatest success. Contact me if you want some 

tidbits, I am happy to spread the word

And in the moments when there was no class to sit in on 

we crafted (how fun) so there were no moments of awkward 

silence between strangers, just fun crafty moments of creativity 

between artists. I highly recommend hopping on board for 

next years summt!

I'll be there!

A Veil or not a Veil?

Would you ever consider wearing a colored veil?

I wasn't 100% behind the veil idea but I did want something

to spruce up my hair. 

Than I stumbled across that image up top 

of the beautiful bride with the scarf in her hair... amazing. 

Right?! Couldn't you imagine an outdoor wedding with a 

really beautiful handpainted scarf in your hair. {Than you 

can wear it again and again too!} I like the first one listed 

the best. Any thoughts?

PS. You can find more beautifully hand painted scarves 

at Silk Couture by Takuyo have fun!

Kiki and Polly

Just some more reasons that we LOVE Kiki & Polly, and their

 amazing art. I adore those colors. I want our wedding to be the

colors of the bottom painting... {xox}

Sketchbook Scans

I stumbled upon Design Instruct's 50 beautiful Sketchbook Scans

this morning and I had to share some of them. Taking a page out of some 

sketchbooks is like diving into another universe. I love seeing the way 

some artist's minds work... 

 Allen Sutton

 David Fullarton

 Joshua Philippe

 Mattias Adolfsson

 Nacho-Yague

And a couple from my sketchbook, just to throw in the mix. 

And a page from my talented grandmother's sketchbook. {xox}

Heart Umbrella

Adorable. 

Halloween Costume

What are you dressing you as for halloween this year. 

I think having a little baby to dress up is going to be 

the most fun ever! Look how adorable this grouch is!

Persist

Inspired by Steve Jobs and his amazing persistence....

here is a note from Pixar. 

Imagine if Steve Jobs had given up after being fired

from Apple... No Pixar, No iPod, iPad, iTunes, iPhone he 

changed the world. That was persistant. 

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." Steve Jobs

Read more: here

Please don't forget to Persist. Think of the alternative. 

This Weekend...

This weekend I am interested in conversations over coffee and 

wearing sweaters with sunglasses. I am dying for the fresh fall

sun and the crispy breeze. I am pretty sure world peace could be

accomplished if everyone got to experience some open aired

fall days and some warm coffee {and maybe a danish of some 

sort} who doesn't smile over danishes? 

In the interest of World Peace...Lets all wear sunglasses

and eat a danish this weekend. Its important. 

Birthday Wishes

For love is immortality.  ~Emily Dickinson

Happy Birthday to my PawPaw

Infinity Hugs and Kisses.